[lg policy] New Edition of Ethnologue Released Online

[Harold Schiffman]

New Edition of Ethnologue Released Online


SIL International is pleased to announce the release of the 17th edition of
Ethnologue at:

http://www.ethnologue.com

This on-line work features country-by-country listings of 7,105 known
living languages, including nearly 60,000 updates over information in the
previous edition (published 2009).

Newly introduced in this edition is an estimate of the level of development
versus endangerment for every language listed. These estimates use the
EGIDS, or Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (which is
based on the GIDS developed by Joshua Fishman in his 1991 book, Reversing
Language Shift). For every country, a profile of language status is given
as a bar graph of the EGIDS levels of all its languages. Summary graphs are
also given to give an overvie of the language situation in the 22 UN
regions, 5 major world areas, and the world at large.

The overall finding is that of 7,105 known living languages:

* 10% have reached the relative safety of institutional transmission of a
standardized form
* 22% are in vigorous use with standardization underway
* 35% are in vigorous use with no development efforts
* 21% are in trouble because they are losing speakers but are still used in
the child-bearing generation
* 13% are dying with the only fluent users (if any) being older than the
child-bearing generation

In addition, this edition of Ethnologue lists 375 languages that were known
to be in use in 1950 and which are extinct today.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-1281.html

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